The old SSD is 250 GB. The new one is 1 TB.

I could resize the Windows partition using gparted to leave more than enough room for the entire old drive.

Here is fstab from my current workstation.

# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Oct 21 06:49:22 2016
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/fedora-root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=7ec64a92-3b6c-4554-9b10-f4e3665f25b7 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/fedora-swap swap swap defaults 0 0

How does one set up grub for dual boot after the fact, if you don't do a minimal install ? Or is that what you are suggesting ?

FWIW, just looked up the price of Windows 10 Home... wow !

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote:

On 1/6/20 10:35 AM, linux guy wrote:
> I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current
> workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10
> installed on it. I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in
> handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it on the hard drive.

Is Windows booting via EFI? I would expect it is, but just checking.
Is your old Fedora computer booting with EFI?

> Question: how do I transfer my current workstation installation to the
> new hard drive and retain Windows ? I don't want to start over
> building my workstation installation from a fresh install.

How big is the old hard drive and how big is the new one? If you can
resize Windows to leave enough space, you could directly copy the
partitions from one drive to the other. Otherwise, you can create the
necessary partitions on the new drive and rsync (with the right flags)
the data from the old hard drive. Either way you will you need to
adjust the booting on the new system after. Check the fstab on the old
system. With the rsync method, if the fstab is using labels, then just
create the new partitions with the same labels. Otherwise, you will
need to adjust the copied fstab to use the new partition UUIDs.
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